The King's Good Sister and the King's Bad Wife - the Lutherans and English Catholics | Chapter 9

This is a audio recording/book of The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History, The King's Good Sister and the King's Bad Wife - the Lutherans and English Catholics, Chapter 9 by Martin A. S. Hume.

Catherine Howard (c. 1521 – 13 February 1542), also spelled Katherine, was Henry's fifth wife, between 1540 and 1542. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, cousin to Anne Boleyn (the second wife of Henry VIII), second cousin to Jane Seymour (the third wife of Henry VIII), and niece to Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. She was raised in the household of her step-grandmother Agnes Tilney, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. Her uncle Thomas Howard was a prominent politician at Henry's court, and he secured her a place in the household of Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, where Catherine caught the King's interest. She married him on 28 July 1540 at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, just 19 days after the annulment of his marriage to Anne. He was 49, and she was still a teenager, likely around 18.

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